'Moral rot' is going to destroy the nation

Recently on Fox News was the account of Roy Costner IV, valedictorian of Liberty High School, in Liberty, S.C. As was reported, Roy tore up his "approved" valedictory address and instead quoted the Lord's Prayer. He did so to take a stand against the Pickens County School Board's ban of prayer at all county school events in reaction to an atheist group's pressure on the board to do such. The fact that this even made the news is a sad commentary on the moral decay within our nation.

In the New Living Translation of the Bible, we read in Proverbs 28:2 "When there is moral rot within a nation, its government topples easily. But wise and knowledgeable leaders bring stability." In light of this truth it seems to me that our days as a nation are numbered unless there is a definite repentance and change in the near future in our once great nation.

Our "moral rot" is also evidenced regularly by such things as 3,000-plus abortions each day, growing sexual immorality in all its various forms and greed for possessions, pleasures, power, etc.

If it is true that "a nation gets the leaders that it deserves," then the changes that are needed must first take place in our hearts, the hearts of America's citizenry - and, more specifically, in the hearts of those of us who frequent the pews of our churches. O that we who have left our first love (Rev. 2:4) would fear God and repent and turn back to Him and walk in His ways, that God might grant us "wise and knowledgeable leaders" before it is too late.

In 1962 I also graduated from the same Liberty High School mentioned above.

Donnell Smith

Mansfield

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'Moral rot' is going to destroy the nation

Recently on Fox News was the account of Roy Costner IV, valedictorian of Liberty High School, in Liberty, S.C. As was reported, Roy tore up his 'approved' valedictory address and instead quoted the